Seen in video being grilled by police, Narcy Novack sounded dazed, but authorities said it was all deceit.

“I walked in and I tripped on something. I realized he was on the floor,” Novack is heard telling investigators.

The questioning came in the summer of 2009 and 12 hours after she reported finding the bound and bludgeoned body of her husband in room 453 of the Rye Town Hilton, where the Novacks were organizing a convention.

“My husband is not around to protect me,” Novack could be heard saying on the tape. “I don’t know who to trust.”

Novack acted shocked when cops suggested she hired hitmen so she could inherit her husband’s fortune.

Novack: “You’re telling me that I saw the people that went into the room?”

Investigator: “I’m saying you opened the door for them.”

Novack: “I don’t need for you or anybody else to yell at me or to put pressure on me. I cannot take it. Everything falls on me, just give me an electrical chair and put me out of my misery because I cannot take this anymore.”

About a year after the investigation, Novack was charged with conspiring with her brother to use hitmen to kill her husband. She has pleaded not guilty and goes on trial in April.